Analysis of Riding
Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall 1883 (Gunnersbury, London) – 1922 (Vancouver)
IF I should live again,
O God, let me be young,
Quick of sinew and vein
With the honeycomb on my tongue,
All in a moment flung
With the dawn on a flowing plain,
Riding, riding, riding, riding
Between the sun and the rain.
If I, having been, must be,
O God, let it be so,
Swift and supple and free
With a long journey to go,
And the clink of the curb and the blow
Of hooves, and the wind at my knee,
Riding, riding, riding, riding
Between the hills and the sea.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111101 111111 11101 1010111 100101 10110101 10101010 0101001 1110111 111111 101001 1011011 001101001 11001111 10101010 0101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 453 |
Words | 96 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 173 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 09, 2023
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